An Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Telemetry Scheme

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The Bitter Lesson of Misuse Detection

Prior work on jailbreak detection has established the importance of adversarial robustness for LLMs but has largely focused on the model ability to resist adversarial inputs and to output safe content, rather than the effectiveness of external supervision systems. The only public and independent...

Rugsafe: a Multichain Protocol for Recovering from and Defending against Rug Pulls

Rugsafe introduces a comprehensive protocol aimed at mitigating the risks of rug pulls in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. By utilizing cryptographic security measures and economic incentives, the protocol provides a secure multichain system for recovering assets and transforming rugged tokens into...

CitrixBleed-2 Out-Of-Bounds Read

CVE-2025-5777 is a critical unauthenticated out-of-bounds read in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway Gateway or AAA vServer mode. A single crafted request can dump memory containing session tokens, enabling full authentication bypass—earning the nickname CitrixBleed 2. This is a proof of concept exploi...

Polyadic Encryption

A novel original procedure of encryption/decryption based on the polyadic algebraic structures and on signal processing methods is proposed. First, we use signals with integer amplitudes to send information. Then we use polyadic techniques to transfer the plaintext into series of special integers...

TuneShield: Mitigating Toxicity in Conversational AI While Fine-Tuning on Untrusted Data

Recent advances in foundation models, such as LLMs, have revolutionized conversational AI. Chatbots are increasingly being developed by customizing LLMs on specific conversational datasets. However, mitigating toxicity during this customization, especially when dealing with untrusted training dat...

A Survey on Artificial Noise for Physical Layer Security: Opportunities, Technologies, Guidelines, Advances, and Trends

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise AN, as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable of utilizing the spatial degree-of-freedom of channels to...

Post-Processing in Local Differential Privacy: an Extensive Evaluation and Benchmark Platform

Local differential privacy LDP has recently gained prominence as a powerful paradigm for collecting and analyzing sensitive data from users' devices. However, the inherent perturbation added by LDP protocols reduces the utility of the collected data. To mitigate this issue, several post-processin...

Taming Data Challenges in ML-Based Security Tasks: Lessons from Integrating Generative AI

Machine learning-based supervised classifiers are widely used for security tasks, and their improvement has been largely focused on algorithmic advancements. We argue that data challenges that negatively impact the performance of these classifiers have received limited attention. We address the...

Bridging AI and Software Security: a Comparative Vulnerability Assessment of LLM Agent Deployment Paradigms

Large Language Model LLM agents face security vulnerabilities spanning AI-specific and traditional software domains, yet current research addresses these separately. This study bridges this gap through comparative evaluation of Function Calling architecture and Model Context Protocol MCP deployme...

A Novel APVD Steganography Technique Incorporating Pseudorandom Pixel Selection for Robust Image Security

Steganography is the process of embedding secret information discreetly within a carrier, ensuring secure exchange of confidential data. The Adaptive Pixel Value Differencing APVD steganography method, while effective, encounters certain challenges like the "unused blocks" issue. This problem can...

Suricata IDPE 7.0.11

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and...

CAVGAN: Unifying Jailbreak and Defense of LLMs Via Generative Adversarial Attacks on Their Internal Representations

Security alignment enables the Large Language Model LLM to gain the protection against malicious queries, but various jailbreak attack methods reveal the vulnerability of this security mechanism. Previous studies have isolated LLM jailbreak attacks and defenses. We analyze the security protection...

TELSAFE: Security Gap Quantitative Risk Assessment Framework

Gaps between established security standards and their practical implementation have the potential to introduce vulnerabilities, possibly exposing them to security risks. To effectively address and mitigate these security and compliance challenges, security risk management strategies are essential...

BackFed: an Efficient and Standardized Benchmark Suite for Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL systems are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries train their local models on poisoned data and submit poisoned model updates to compromise the global model. Despite numerous proposed attacks and defenses, divergent experimental settings, implementation errors, a...

CLIP-Guided Backdoor Defense through Entropy-Based Poisoned Dataset Separation

Deep Neural Networks DNNs are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison training data to implant backdoor into the victim model. Current backdoor defenses on poisoned data often suffer from high computational costs or low effectiveness against advanced attacks like clean-label and...

Disappearing Ink: Obfuscation Breaks N-Gram Code Watermarks in Theory and Practice

Distinguishing AI-generated code from human-written code is becoming crucial for tasks such as authorship attribution, content tracking, and misuse detection. Based on this, N-gram-based watermarking schemes have emerged as prominent, which inject secret watermarks to be detected during the...

Hybrid Approach to Directed Fuzzing

Program analysis and automated testing have recently become an essential part of SSDLC. Directed greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular automated testing methods that focuses on error detection in predefined code regions. However, it still lacks ability to overcome difficult program...

Efficient Unlearning with Privacy Guarantees

Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning ML models trained on them. Machine unlearning has emerged as a practical means to facilitate model forgetting of data...

FIDESlib: a Fully-Fledged Open-Source FHE Library for Efficient CKKS on GPUs

Word-wise Fully Homomorphic Encryption FHE schemes, such as CKKS, are gaining significant traction due to their ability to provide post-quantum-resistant, privacy-preserving approximate computing; an especially desirable feature in Machine-Learning-as-a-Service MLaaS cloud-computing paradigms...

Red Teaming AI Red Teaming

Red teaming has evolved from its origins in military applications to become a widely adopted methodology in cybersecurity and AI. In this paper, we take a critical look at the practice of AI red teaming. We argue that despite its current popularity in AI governance, there exists a significant gap...

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery

Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify previously unknown phenomena. In this paper, we examine threat hunting metrics and practice by studying the detection of...

Bullshark on Narwhal: Implementation-Level Workflow Analysis of Round-Based DAG Consensus in Theory and Practice

Round-based DAGs enable high-performance Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, yet their technical advantages remain underutilized due to their short history. While research on consensus protocols is active in both academia and industry, many studies overlook implementation-level algorithms, leavin...

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders

Large Language Models LLMs have transformed human-machine interaction since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, with Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG emerging as a key framework that enhances LLM outputs by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG's reliance on ingesting external documents introduces new...

Cascade: Token-Sharded Private LLM Inference

As LLMs continue to increase in parameter size, the computational resources required to run them are available to fewer parties. Therefore, third-party inference services -- where LLMs are hosted by third parties with significant computational resources -- are becoming increasingly popular...

Cyclic Equalizability of Words and Its Application to Card-Based Cryptography

Card-based cryptography is a research area to implement cryptographic procedures using a deck of physical cards. In recent years, it has been found to be related to finite group theory and algebraic combinatorics, and is becoming more and more closely connected to the field of mathematics. In thi...

DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective

The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concerns. Dataset auditing techniques, which aim to...

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon'S Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework

Nova Premier is Amazon's most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation. It processes text, images, and video with a one-million-token context window, enabling analysis of large codebases, 400-page documents, and 90-minute videos in a single prompt. We present the fir...

Extreme Learning Machine Based System for DDoS Attacks Detections on IoMT Devices

The Internet of Medical Things IoMT represents a paradigm shift in the healthcare sector, enabling the interconnection of medical devices, sensors, and systems to enhance patient monitoring, diagnosis, and management. The rapid evolution of IoMT presents significant benefits to the healthcare...

The Landscape of Memorization in LLMs: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Mitigation

Large Language Models LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, yet they also exhibit memorization of their training data. This phenomenon raises critical questions about model behavior, privacy risks, and the boundary between learning and memorization. Addressi...

How Not to Detect Prompt Injections with an LLM

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Adaptive Variation-Resilient Random Number Generator for Embedded Encryption

With a growing interest in securing user data within the internet-of-things IoT, embedded encryption has become of paramount importance, requiring light-weight high-quality Random Number Generators RNGs. Emerging stochastic device technologies produce random numbers from stochastic physical...

Attacker'S Noise Can Manipulate Your Audio-Based LLM in the Real World

This paper investigates the real-world vulnerabilities of audio-based large language models ALLMs, such as Qwen2-Audio. We first demonstrate that an adversary can craft stealthy audio perturbations to manipulate ALLMs into exhibiting specific targeted behaviors, such as eliciting responses to...

QNAP Remote Code Execution

QNAP proof of concept stack overflow remote code execution exploit. This has been addressed in versions QTS 5.1.7.2770 build 20240520, hero h5.1.7.2770 build 20240520 and above...

LIFT: Automating Symbolic Execution Optimization with Large Language Models for AI Networks

Dynamic Symbolic Execution DSE is a key technique in program analysis, widely used in software testing, vulnerability discovery, and formal verification. In distributed AI systems, DSE plays a crucial role in identifying hard-to-detect bugs, especially those arising from complex network...

Enabling Security on the Edge: a CHERI Compartmentalized Network Stack

The widespread deployment of embedded systems in critical infrastructures, interconnected edge devices like autonomous drones, and smart industrial systems requires robust security measures. Compromised systems increase the risks of operational failures, data breaches, and -- in safety-critical...

Q-Detection: a Quantum-Classical Hybrid Poisoning Attack Detection Method

Data poisoning attacks pose significant threats to machine learning models by introducing malicious data into the training process, thereby degrading model performance or manipulating predictions. Detecting and sifting out poisoned data is an important method to prevent data poisoning attacks...

Phantom Subgroup Poisoning: Stealth Attacks on Federated Recommender Systems

Federated recommender systems FedRec have emerged as a promising solution for delivering personalized recommendations while safeguarding user privacy. However, recent studies have demonstrated their vulnerability to poisoning attacks. Existing attacks typically target the entire user group, which...

IThermTroj: Exploiting Intermittent Thermal Trojans in Multi-Processor System-On-Chips

Thermal Trojan attacks present a pressing concern for the security and reliability of System-on-Chips SoCs, especially in mobile applications. The situation becomes more complicated when such attacks are more evasive and operate sporadically to stay hidden from detection mechanisms. In this paper...

Large Language Models for Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Foundations, Implementations, and Future Directions

Large Language Models LLMs have revolutionized various fields with their exceptional capabilities in understanding, processing, and generating human-like text. This paper investigates the potential of LLMs in advancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS, analyzing current challenges,...

Beyond Training-Time Poisoning: Component-Level and Post-Training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning DRL systems are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, yet their security remains severely underexplored. This work investigates backdoor attacks, which implant hidden triggers that cause malicious actions only when specific inputs appear in the observation...

Layered, Overlapping, and Inconsistent: a Large-Scale Analysis of the Multiple Privacy Policies and Controls of U.S. Banks

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PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing

In distributed networks, participants often face diverse and fast-evolving cyberattacks. This makes techniques based on Federated Learning FL a promising mitigation strategy. By only exchanging model updates, FL participants can collaboratively build detection models without revealing sensitive...

A Systematization of Security Vulnerabilities in Computer Use Agents

Computer Use Agents CUAs, autonomous systems that interact with software interfaces via browsers or virtual machines, are rapidly being deployed in consumer and enterprise environments. These agents introduce novel attack surfaces and trust boundaries that are not captured by traditional threat...

AIDE 0.19.1

AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment is a free replacement for Tripwiretm. It generates a database that can be used to check the integrity of files on server. It uses regular expressions for determining which files get added to the database. You can use several message digest algorithms ...

FrameShift: Learning to Resize Fuzzer Inputs without Breaking Them

Coverage-guided fuzzers are powerful automated bug-finding tools. They mutate program inputs, observe coverage, and save any input that hits an unexplored path for future mutation. Unfortunately, without knowledge of input formats--for example, the relationship between formats' data fields and...

Arbiter PUF: Uniqueness and Reliability Analysis Using Hybrid CMOS-Stanford Memristor Model

In an increasingly interconnected world, protecting electronic devices has grown more crucial because of the dangers of data extraction, reverse engineering, and hardware tampering. Producing chips in a third-party manufacturing company can let hackers change the design. As the Internet of Things...

VOLTRON: Detecting Unknown Malware Using Graph-Based Zero-Shot Learning

The persistent threat of Android malware presents a serious challenge to the security of millions of users globally. While many machine learning-based methods have been developed to detect these threats, their reliance on large labeled datasets limits their effectiveness against emerging,...

SoK: a Systematic Review of Context- and Behavior-Aware Adaptive Authentication in Mobile Environments

As mobile computing becomes central to digital interaction, researchers have turned their attention to adaptive authentication for its real-time, context- and behavior-aware verification capabilities. However, many implementations remain fragmented, inconsistently apply intelligent techniques, an...

UniAud: a Unified Auditing Framework for High Auditing Power and Utility with One Training Run

Differentially private DP optimization has been widely adopted as a standard approach to provide rigorous privacy guarantees for training datasets. DP auditing verifies whether a model trained with DP optimization satisfies its claimed privacy level by estimating empirical privacy lower bounds...